Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters.

We're pretty down-to-earth at 'The Daily Show.' Everyone is pretty sane. We don't party crazy.

I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective.

I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.

The first joke I ever told on stage was a golf joke.

I thought it was a joke at first, but the president did, in fact, authorize an autopen to sign the Patriot Act extension into law. Consider the dangerous precedent this sets. Any number of circumstances could arise in the future where the public could question whether or not the president authorized the use of an autopen.

I go to the British Comedy Awards and, you know, quite a few people were making jokes at my expense. It just made me feel awful, because I am there with my wife and she has gone out and bought a dress. And it is my big night and I won, and yet the overriding experience was that of nastiness.

My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.